Improvement in fastenings for bedsteads



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Fastenings for Bedsteads, 8w. N0. 143,431. Patented Oct. 7,1873.

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following is a specification:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. BAIRD, OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS FOR BEDSTEADS &c.

Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 143,431, dated October 7, 1873; application filed January 18, 1873.

To. all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. BAIRD, of Wheeling, in'the county of Ohio and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and Improved Fastening for Furniture, of which the The drawing represents a perspective view of the corner of a bedstead, showing my'iinproved fastening applied at the junction of the head-piece and side rail, and also at the junction of the legs of the bed.

The object of this invention is to produce a simple and reliable means for connecting converging rails, boards, or pieces of articles of furniture, so that such converging or joining pieces may be firmly held together, but so that they can be readily taken apart. The invention consists in theapplication, to such converging pieces, of wedgeshaped or obliqueedged blocks, of which one is attached to each piece in such position that the two blocks, when overlapping each other with their oblique faces, hold the pieces to which they are attached properly together.

In the drawing, the letter A represents the head-board of the bedstead, and B the side rail of the same. a is a triangular block attached to the head-piece A, and b a similar block attached to the side rail B, the position of both blocks being such that,when the pieces A and B are placed together at the requisite angle, the oblique faces of the triangular blocks will come in contact, and will draw and hold the two pieces properly together.

the lower of the triangular blocks is attached; so that such link, when swung over the upper block, may prevent the backward motion of the same, and thus hold the parts properly together.

Similar blocks a bare shown on p the legs 0 D, respectively, of the bedstead. In fact, the invention is applicable to all kinds and parts of fumitureto tables, sofas, desks, &G.2t11(l will, in every case, be as useful as it is shown to be on the bedstead.

The blocks a I) may be made of wood, as indicated, or cast of metal or other suitable material. They are not necessarily triangular, but must be provided with the contiguous oblique faces, by the contact of which they hold the part to which they are attached in place.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In combination with the rails A B of a bedstead, the blocks a I), having oblique faces, and arranged to interlock, as "shown and described.

2. The locking piece or block (I, in combination with the blocks a b, applied to the rails A B, and blocks a b, attached to the legsl) G, as specified.

JAMES M. BAIRD. Witnesses:

R. H. PRATT, A. W. PAULL. 

